First Day of School

6:45 am - Get up and start getting ready.

7:35 am - Head out the door and walk to school.

8:00 am - Arrive at school. Take off my sneakers and put on my Birkenstocks (school shoes), then carry my sneakers because I don't know where to put them. Stand and look lost.

8:05 am - Seon-hui (Sunny), a Korean English teachers walks in, sees me, and takes me to the first floor teachers' office where I was originally supposed to be (I think). Find out instead I'm supposed to be in the third floor teachers' office, but I don't have a desk prepared for me yet.

8:10 am - Go to third floor teachers' office with Seon-hui and sit at a table.

8:15 am - Seon-hui tells me I can sit in the English Lab room (where I can use the internet) until I have a desk in the teachers' office.

8:16 am - Move to English Lab and use the internet.

Several Times - Between classes, groups of girls walk past the doors, see me sitting in the lab, and either giggle and wave, or giggle and run away. A couple brave souls stick their heads in and say hello.

11:45 am - A teacher and several boys come to put chairs in the English Lab. When I say thank you, the last boy bows and scurries away.

12:45 pm - Seon-hui comes in to take me to lunch, since I still have no idea where anything is in the school. Lunch consists of rice, kimchi, some kind of spicy beef mixture, some kind of bean-jelly stir fry mixture, and some kind of tofu and greens soup. It all actually tastes pretty good. I sit at a table with Korean teachers and then Seon-hui joins us.

1:30 pm - Finish lunch and walk with Seon-hui back to the third floor. Finally she explains that she is helping me out with things for now, because my actual co-teacher is very very busy. I ask her if she knows anything about me getting an Alien Registration Card (things my co-teacher is supposed to help with), and she says she will ask for me. She also tells me that students are not supposed to be in the language lab, except for class (because there's a lot of expensive equipment in there), so if I see students in there, I should tell them to leave.

1:35 pm - Grab some tea from the teachers' office. Come back to the English lab to find two girls sitting on the tables and talking. I ask them if they're supposed to be here, but I don't think they understand me, so then I point to the door and ask them to leave. Gotta put my teacher foot down.

1:45 pm - My actual co-teacher comes to see me (I'm not sure how to write her name). She asks if I can go with her to get my ARC after school today

2:47 pm - Four girls come into the room and ask me where I'm from, how old I am, and if I have a boyfriend. They also ask me if I know Robert Pattison and Apolo Ohno.

3:20 pm - Bell rings for end of classes. But teachers work until 4:30.

4:12 pm - My co-teacher rushes in and says it's time to go get my ARC card, and away we go!




P.S. - I know this is late, but my internet is still limited, so I forgot to post it earlier. Deal with it!